Posted on 09/15/2010 6:28:55 AM PDT by maggief
Have you seen this?
Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party
Freedomist ^ | 9/14/10 | Bill & Paul Collier
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:17:36 AM by jimbo123
Sources at the Christine O’Donnell victory party revealed to The Freedomist that in December of last year Karl Rove met with Tea Party leaders in Dover, Delaware trying to get them to cut a “deal” in which they would leave Mike Castle alone and NOT support O’Donnell.
The Freedomist has also learned that Rove was allegedly acting as an operative, although in what capacity it is not known, even as he is playing the role of a political analyst on Fox New in a fair and balanced way.
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomist.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2589434/posts
They also should remember that the Delaware Senator gets sworn in immediately and will be a voting member of the Lame Duck session.
Rove undermined his own credibility in that interview... he didn’t say all that he was thinking... he kept his real motives in the closet.
Perhaps he has been hired by the establishment to work against the Tea Party candidates. He’s definitely shown he’s on the other side in this battle.
Do you have any source for a list of which states are open v. closed primaries?
This is pretty explosive if true:
Frankly, like far too many ugly little nerds who could not get a date for the senior prom, Rove clearly has deep-seated psychological problems with pretty, powerful women. It’s a trait he shares with Newt Gingrich and a guy named Barack Obama.
See my #45. Chris Baker (KTLK Twin Cities) was just talking about Rove trying to cut a deal with the Tea Party to leave Castle alone.
I just tried to e-send her some and it wouldn't go through - I think we've crashed the server.
I'd forgotten that myself (I did know it once, really) - thanks for the reminder.
Not surprised ... follow the money ...
which will probably lead this this group of GOP elitists:
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html
Our National Panel of Experts:
Governor Haley Barbour
Governor Jeb Bush
Governor Bobby Jindal
Senator John McCain
Governor Mitt Romney
(snip)
Sincerely,
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Carter, Pete Sessions, David Dreier, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Blunt
Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Ensign, John Cornyn, John Thune, Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Gingrich Joins Cantor’s Effort To Remake GOP
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38825.html
A new 527 group conceived by veteran GOP hands Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie and launched this year with predictions that it would raise $52 million to support Republican candidates has thus far failed to live up to the fundraising hype.
The group, American Crossroads, raised only $200 last month, according to a report it filed Monday with the Internal Revenue Service, bringing its total raised since launching in March to a little more than $1.25 million. It spent $76,000 in May, primarily on legal fees and salaries, bringing its total spending to $140,000.
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Right. That's why I have not sent the RNC a dime in many years. I send money to individual candidates according to MY priorities.
MEMO TO ROVE: “Get out of our party.”
The money trail ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2589509%2C45
American Crossroads announces 11 Senate targets
1. American Crossroads, the conservative independent organization promising to spend upwards of $50 million on races this fall, has settled on 11 targeted Senate contests, according to sources briefed on the group’s plans.
In each of the 11 races — in Ohio, Missouri, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Florida, Illinois and Washington state — American Crossroads plans to hire a media consultant and pollster tasked with crafting a tailored message.
The group’s first foray into a race came earlier this week in Nevada when it dropped about $120,000 on a week-long television buy that hits Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on his support for the $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
Wilson Grand is handling the ads for American Crossroads in Nevada while Jan van Lohuizen of Voter/Consumer Research, who handled polling for President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election bid, will play the same role for the conservative group in the Silver State.
Sources familiar with the group, which was formed in the spring with the blessing of major GOP figures including Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, cast the selection of Senate targets as evidence that it is beginning to function in the way it was imagined.
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http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/big-time-donors-not-so.php
Bush’s Brains, Rove + Gillespie Raise GOP Bucks
Check out Rove’s 527, American Crossroads.
” MEMO TO ROVE: “Get out of our party.””
Amazing how many FReepers just now woke up to the RINO TRAITOR Rove.
How much of the cross-over voting is coming from RATS?
NOT IN DELAWARE... THEY HAVE CLOSED PRIMARIES!
1. Establishment Republican leadership has established that they either do not understand or are not serious about addressing the underlying dynamics that have caused the current US problems and
2. there are new "King Makers" in the Republican Party and the old guard isn't the least bit happy about it.
Not off-hand, sorry. But generally the operation chaos type fears are way overblown.
“The truth is now they need every person that voted for Castle to get on board.”
And that would include DE GOP bigwigs, right?
While this is a true and accurate statement of one of the basics of political reality, the way it is being used in these discussions and by the RNSC and political "experts" in the media is dishonest and shameful.
There is a world of difference between simply prioritizing and allocating resources as campaign developments unfold, or making a big, splashy pre-emptive pronouncement on the very night of a candidate's victory that "we won't be supporting him/her". The first is a logical, reasonable course of action - the latter is nothing more than deliberate sabotage.
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